Re: installing qmail
Jonathan X Peers writes: I am tring to install qmail and I am here in the INSTALL doc ... as i run the following I get this error can some point me in the right direction . PLEASE --- 8. Copy /var/qmail/boot/home (or proc) to /var/qmail/rc. To test qmail deliveries (won't interfere with sendmail): 9. Enable deliveries of messages injected into qmail: # csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc ' 10. Read TEST.deliver. root@alpha:/usr/src/qmail-1.03# csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc ' [1] 2328 /var/qmail/rc: Permission denied. [1]Exit 1/var/qmail/rc root@alpha:/usr/src/qmail-1.03# you have to make /var/qmail/rc executable: chmod +x /var/qmail/rc but you should know that, that are basics. perhaps you should first learn about linux before trying to run a mailserver. regards, philipp Philipp Steinkrüger Technik Oberberg Online Tel.: +49 2261 814240 Fax: +49 2261 814919 www.oberberg.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]
installing qmail
I am tring to install qmail and I am here in the INSTALL doc ... as i run the following I get this error can some point me in the right direction . PLEASE --- 8. Copy /var/qmail/boot/home (or proc) to /var/qmail/rc. To test qmail deliveries (won't interfere with sendmail): 9. Enable deliveries of messages injected into qmail: # csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc ' 10. Read TEST.deliver. root@alpha:/usr/src/qmail-1.03# csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc ' [1] 2328 /var/qmail/rc: Permission denied. [1]Exit 1/var/qmail/rc root@alpha:/usr/src/qmail-1.03#
Re: installing qmail tshirt-HELP please respond!!!
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Timothy Legant wrote: On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 10:48:37AM -0400, Andy Meuse wrote: Hey all, I got my qmail tshirt and I put it on according to the directions in Dave's LWQT, but the big logo is on the front of the shirt. How can I get the big qmail logo to be on the back and the little one to be on the front? I've tried taking it off and switching it around, and the logo is in the right place but then the shirt is inside out. Then when I take it off and put it on again I'm back where I started. I think it's a relaying problem between my ears. Any thoughts? -=Andy What Do The Logos Say?(tm) -- Tim man tshirt-logo Bill Carlson Systems Programmer[EMAIL PROTECTED]| Opinions are mine, Virtual Hospital http://www.vh.org/| not my employer's. University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics|
Re: installing qmail tshirt-HELP please respond!!!
Thanks for all your help guys. I got the qmail tshirt installed correctly. It just took a littlesobering because my system is running Mandrunk 7.1. Now I have another small problem. My system is constantly overheating. I think it is because I have an old version of tshirt still installed. I've tried removing it, but the new tshirt installis making it very difficult. Lucky for meafemale collegue of mine hassolved a similarproblemuninstalling bra after installing tshirt so I think I can get help from her. The poor thing was running openPMS at the time too. -=Andy - Original Message - From: Andy Meuse To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 10:48 AM Subject: installing qmail tshirt-HELP please respond!!! Hey all, I got my qmail tshirt and I put it on according to the directions in Dave's LWQT, but the big logo is on the front of the shirt. How can I get the big qmail logo to be on the back and the little one to be on the front? I've tried taking it off and switching it around, and the logo is in the right place but then the shirt is inside out. Then when I take it off and put it on again I'm back where I started. I think it's a relaying problem between my ears. Any thoughts? -=Andy
Re: installing qmail
hi, thanks for the help, it was the linux 14 link, having two admins of a server is a right pain! someone gets half way through upgrading the kernel and gives up - all without telling me - arg! hopefully - no error messages is a good sign thanks Neil
installing qmail tshirt-HELP please respond!!!
Hey all, I got my qmail tshirt and I put it on according to the directions in Dave's LWQT, but the big logo is on the front of the shirt. How can I get the big qmail logo to be on the back and the little one to be on the front? I've tried taking it off and switching it around, and the logo is in the right place but then the shirt is inside out. Then when I take it off and put it on again I'm back where I started. I think it's a relaying problem between my ears. Any thoughts? -=Andy
RE: installing qmail tshirt-HELP please respond!!!
Sorry, I just cannot resist answering that: Take it off again. Now see, that the logos are on the outside (this is the default when you first unpack it) Now hold it in front of you. turn it, so that the big logo faces you. Now put it on. it should be right. If you still have problems try re-compiling (cut out the logos an put them on a fresh shirt. First you have to make clean; make shirt or simply buy new-shirt - depending on your platform Cheers Leo -Original Message- From: Andy Meuse [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 4:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: installing qmail tshirt-HELP please respond!!! Hey all, I got my qmail tshirt and I put it on according to the directions in Dave's LWQT, but the big logo is on the front of the shirt. How can I get the big qmail logo to be on the back and the little one to be on the front? I've tried taking it off and switching it around, and the logo is in the right place but then the shirt is inside out. Then when I take it off and put it on again I'm back where I started. I think it's a relaying problem between my ears. Any thoughts? -=Andy
Re: installing qmail tshirt-HELP please respond!!!
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 10:48:37AM -0400, Andy Meuse wrote: Hey all, I got my qmail tshirt and I put it on according to the directions in Dave's LWQT, but the big logo is on the front of the shirt. How can I get the big qmail logo to be on the back and the little one to be on the front? I've tried taking it off and switching it around, and the logo is in the right place but then the shirt is inside out. Then when I take it off and put it on again I'm back where I started. I think it's a relaying problem between my ears. Any thoughts? -=Andy What Do The Logos Say?(tm) -- Tim
Re: installing qmail tshirt-HELP please respond!!!
This is too hilarious. *rotfl* Henrik. At 04:04 PM 10/11/00 -0500, you wrote: On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 10:48:37AM -0400, Andy Meuse wrote: Hey all, I got my qmail tshirt and I put it on according to the directions in Dave's LWQT, but the big logo is on the front of the shirt. How can I get the big qmail logo to be on the back and the little one to be on the front? I've tried taking it off and switching it around, and the logo is in the right place but then the shirt is inside out. Then when I take it off and put it on again I'm back where I started. I think it's a relaying problem between my ears. Any thoughts? -=Andy What Do The Logos Say?(tm) -- Tim
installing qmail
I am trying to setup qmail but I get stuck: #make setup check ./compile sig_alarm.c In file included from /usr/include/signal.h:300, from sig_alarm.c:1: /usr/include/bits/sigcontext.h:28: asm/sigcontext.h: No such file or directory make: *** [sig_alarm.o] Error 1 thanks Neil
Re: installing qmail
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Neil Grant wrote: I am trying to setup qmail but I get stuck: #make setup check ./compile sig_alarm.c In file included from /usr/include/signal.h:300, from sig_alarm.c:1: /usr/include/bits/sigcontext.h:28: asm/sigcontext.h: No such file or directory make: *** [sig_alarm.o] Error 1 Looks like you don't have the kernel header files installed on your Linux system. On my RedHat 6.2 box rpm -qf /usr/src/linux-2.2.14/include/asm-i386/sigcontext.h kernel-headers-2.2.14-5.0 /usr/include/asm - ../src/linux/include/asm /usr/src/linux - linux-2.2.14 /usr/src/linux-2.2.14/include/asm - asm-i386 Whenever you're reporting compile issues, please include the operating system and release details. Often it's not easy to pick which operating system you're having trouble with just from the missing filename alone. -- Regards Peter -- Peter Samuel[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-smith.org (development)http://www.e-smith.com (corporate) Phone: +1 613 368 4398 Fax: +1 613 564 7739 e-smith, inc. 1500-150 Metcalfe St, Ottawa, ON K2P 1P1 Canada "If you kill all your unhappy customers, you'll only have happy ones left"
[newcomer] Problems installing Qmail+VMailMgr+Courier-Imap
hello, I've come across HOWO recently added to the linux HOWTO's, written by Dan Kuykendall, titled "Qmail VMailMgr and Courier-ImapHOWTO". This HOWTO guided me though the prep/compile/install for - ucspi-tcp - daemontools - supervise-scripts - qmail - vmailmgr - courier-imap and a few config changes, like add a user and add a virtualhosts file to add users to a test domain virtualhost. Ah, of course, I did remove sendmail and friends before starting. And then restarted. [ a little background on the machine: it's an old RH5.1 upgraded to RH.6.1, running named (from CD rpms), Samba (built from src) and MySQL (from SRPMs) and Apache+mod_perl (built from src). I do have lots of Perl modules, but don't think it matters. ] Well, now nothing's running as it should. It's an internal test server, so I don't really mind that syslog is taking 50% of cpu time. :) But I guess that signals that something's running wrong, don't you? Now, the symptoms I could gather: - syslogd taking 50% processor time - command line utilities like mail / sendmail are there and seem to work, but `mail root` or `sendmail root` and then typing `mail` to see my own msg did not work. Maybe I'm expecting something to work that won't ever work when virtualizing email accounts? - tried to connect to the imap server from the very same box, with NN4.x under GNOME and got an eternal wait. - tried to connect to the pop server from the very same box, with NN4.x under GNOME and got an eternal wait. As you can read, I'm quite new to this software, and I'm looking for clues to follow. Could someone point me in the right direction? The aim of all this is to get qmail to work, and then virtual domain accounts to work also over imap. Then. with the aid of an opensource imap webmail interface, I'll be out with Pinky and The Brain to conquer the world :) Thanks! martin -- -- To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. -- -- - Martin Langhoff @ S C I M Multimedia Technology - - http://www.scim.net | God is real until - - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | declared integer -
Re: [newcomer] Problems installing Qmail+VMailMgr+Courier-Imap
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 03:04:54PM -0300, Martin A. Langhoff wrote: [snip] Now, the symptoms I could gather: - syslogd taking 50% processor time syslog sucks. daemontools (which you installed) come with multilog which does a far better job. - command line utilities like mail / sendmail are there and seem to work, but `mail root` or `sendmail root` and then typing `mail` to see my own msg did not work. Maybe I'm expecting something to work that won't ever work when virtualizing email accounts? qmail does not and will not ever deliver to root. Check ~alias for where this mail went, or check the logfiles. Greetz, Peter. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Peter van Dijk [student:developer:madly in love]
Re: No SMTP after installing qmail
Heh. A RTFM luser eh? If you look back at my earlier email I mentioned that I did. I was referring to "/l/bin/procmail" if you read the f$@$ email coz it doesn't seem right. clemensF wrote: Rino Mardo: did i read it right? -- "..you already use procmail, use it by specifying "mda /l/bin/procmail" in .fetchmailrc." yes. fetchmail gets your incoming mail, so no need to put up smtpd. think hard and read the fm. -- clemens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No SMTP after installing qmail
Rino Mardo: did i read it right? -- "..you already use procmail, use it by specifying "mda /l/bin/procmail" in .fetchmailrc." I was referring to "/l/bin/procmail" if you read the f$@$ email coz it doesn't seem right. ok. i thought i had myself made clear. i just wanted you to insert the full path to procmail, /l/bin/procmail is an example. i've got this in my .fetchmailrc: set logfile /var/log/fetchmail set daemon 77177 defaults #fetchall forcecr qmail-smtpd needs forcecr, procmail doesn't fetchall antispam 553, 571, 550, 501 mda /usr/local/bin/procmail poll pop.host.dom protocol POP3 timeout 200 user user-name pass ,and-his-password is his-local-name here as long as things don't work as tested, use "fetchall keep" as defaults. -- clemens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No SMTP after installing qmail
Hi. I think my earlier email on this was lost so here it is: I've installed qmail and followed all the INSTALL.blah (including removing sendmail - but I only renamed it just in case) and my problem now is although I can send, when I fetchmail it complains that I don't have an SMTP to forward my mails to me. I've tried to use procmail in ~/.procmailrc (| exec /usr/bin/procmail) with the same results. I've used the ~alias/boot/proc for ~/alias/rc also. What could be wrong?
problems installing qmail
Hello I'm installing Qmail 1.03 on Red Hat 6.0 I was told to put: csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc ' in my boot script. Where is the exact place to put this command ? I'm afraid all what I tried failed - qmail doesn't start when the system is going up. Thanks.
Re: problems installing qmail
Hi, Have a look in /etc/rc.d/init.d/. Here is where all your startup scripts are housed. In that directory you must create a script (with the correct permissions etc) called qmail or something to that effect. Clue : Have a look at some other scripts there to get an idea. I used ssh and changed it to start qmail. Once you have created the file enter the following: chkconfig --add qmail chkconfig --level qmail 5 on chkconfig --level qmail 3 on If the script is setup correcetly you should be able to enter the following : /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail start (which will start qmail) /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail stop (which will stop qmail) If you are still struggling then mail me back. I'll send you a copy of my start script and also give you more detailed instructions on how to enter the script in its different run levels. Cheers Mark
Re: DO NOT TRY INSTALLING QMAIL ON MANDRAKE
Please, 1) Tell us the machine's name qmail is on. 2) The remote machine's name you are trying to send mail to. 3) Show us the log entry that shows the failed delivery attempt. 4) If you get any bounces, include the bounce with full header. Mate
Re: DO NOT TRY INSTALLING QMAIL ON MANDRAKE
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, MiGhi wrote: I tried and tried to install QMAIL 1.03 on Mandrake7.0 with NO SUCCESS! Something seems to work wrong on Mandrake, and qmail gives CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE. I'm using Qmail under Mandrake right now, and have installed it a few times, both via RPM and by compiling it right from the tarballs. I am very interested of your mail. In fact, I installed RedHat + qmail on a service machine. I love Mandrake (I have been using mandrake since Venice release), and I'd prefer to continue using it... but I love Qmail too ;) I hear ya... I started with RedHat and much prefer Mandrake... =) Does qmail start for you? Can it resolve the MX for your domain? sure. Qmail works 100% but can't deliver mail to remote hosts: CNAME LOOKUP UP FAILURE. qmail receive mails at 100% and deliver them to local users (also at virtual domains). It can't deliver to remote hosts Ok. H... I've never had this problem, mind you I usually use my ISP's SMTP server to send mail rather than qmail, but I have tried it and it has worked. The problem I had was in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail-pop3d.init file with the programs called in the HOST variable (specifically dnsfq). I changed those calls to specify the domain name on my system and then it started working. Why it didn't work before, I don't know, but after I made that change it did work. If you install from tarballs, this is my installation Ok, that's what I did this last time. you use the qmail script (not any qmail-*.init files which come from the tcpserver-initscripts package, I believe), and I don't even think dnsfq is installed (at any rate, it's not on my system), and things work fine. Yes. I follow Life with qmail for the installation. I repeat: Qmail works 100% but can't deliver mails to remote hosts. I couldn't explain this fact. I don't know Miguel... I'm not an expert with qmail (far from it!) and I'm not not sure what your problem could be. All I know is it has to be *something* because if you followed Life with Qmail (which I did this last time), and did it via tarball (which I also did), then there's something else wrong. I know it's not Mandrake because my system works, but as to what it could be, I wouldn't even know where to begin looking. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net Freezer Burn BBS: telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org . ICQ: 54924721 Webmaster for the Linux Portal Site Freezer Burn: http://www.freezer-burn.org
DO NOT TRY INSTALLING QMAIL ON MANDRAKE
Hi everybody. I tried and tried to install QMAIL 1.03 on Mandrake7.0 with NO SUCCESS! Something seems to work wrong on Mandrake, and qmail gives CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE. I tried to reinstall the OS + qmail 5 times! The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time! I tried to apply the DNS patch The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time! I tried to change the router configuration: The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time! I installed latest bind: The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time! I installed RedHat: everything is working fine. Has someone got an idea about this? Has someone got the same problem? Best regards to all Miguel Beccari
Re: DO NOT TRY INSTALLING QMAIL ON MANDRAKE
Chris Johnson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 04:26:15PM +0200, MiGhi wrote: DO NOT TRY INSTALLING QMAIL ON MANDRAKE Why not? I tried and tried to install QMAIL 1.03 on Mandrake7.0 with NO SUCCESS! Something seems to work wrong on Mandrake, and qmail gives CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE. I tried to reinstall the OS + qmail 5 times! The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time! I tried to apply the DNS patch The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time! I tried to change the router configuration: The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time! I installed latest bind: The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time! I installed RedHat: everything is working fine. Has someone got an idea about this? Has someone got the same problem? Fix your DNS problems. Whatever those problems are, they're off-topic for this list. Chris I have been working for 2 weeks trying to solve this problem. I fixed my DNS problem (applied a patch, and installed latest bind) and I finished to think the problem is Mandrake7, because qmail didn't run. I only wanted to know why. I know this fact is strange, but is real: qmail 1.03 does not work with Mandrake7. Regards, Miguel Beccari
Re: DO NOT TRY INSTALLING QMAIL ON MANDRAKE
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 04:43:28PM +0200, MiGhi wrote: I know this fact is strange, but is real: qmail 1.03 does not work with Mandrake7. I don't know anything about Mandrake7, but this is almost certainly not the case. I still suggest that you have a DNS problem. By the way, since the time I sent the initial response to your question, eleven different machines at your ISP have opened SMTP connections to my server every few seconds without sending anything (132 connections so far). What's up with that? Chris
Re: DO NOT TRY INSTALLING QMAIL ON MANDRAKE
I have successfully installed qmail on more than one Mandrake 7 machine. Try blaming a configuration problem (user) not the distro. -- Tim MiGhi writes: Chris Johnson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 04:26:15PM +0200, MiGhi wrote: DO NOT TRY INSTALLING QMAIL ON MANDRAKE Why not? I tried and tried to install QMAIL 1.03 on Mandrake7.0 with NO SUCCESS! Something seems to work wrong on Mandrake, and qmail gives CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE. I tried to reinstall the OS + qmail 5 times! The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time! I tried to apply the DNS patch The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time! I tried to change the router configuration: The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time! I installed latest bind: The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time! I installed RedHat: everything is working fine. Has someone got an idea about this? Has someone got the same problem? Fix your DNS problems. Whatever those problems are, they're off-topic for this list. Chris I have been working for 2 weeks trying to solve this problem. I fixed my DNS problem (applied a patch, and installed latest bind) and I finished to think the problem is Mandrake7, because qmail didn't run. I only wanted to know why. I know this fact is strange, but is real: qmail 1.03 does not work with Mandrake7. Regards, Miguel Beccari Tim Hunter CIMx Company [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cimx.com
Re: DO NOT TRY INSTALLING QMAIL ON MANDRAKE
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 02:58:43PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have successfully installed qmail on more than one Mandrake 7 machine. Try blaming a configuration problem (user) not the distro. -- Tim What are you saying, that the problem is between the chair and the keyboard? :) --Adam
Re: DO NOT TRY INSTALLING QMAIL ON MANDRAKE
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, MiGhi wrote: I tried and tried to install QMAIL 1.03 on Mandrake7.0 with NO SUCCESS! Something seems to work wrong on Mandrake, and qmail gives CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE. I'm using Qmail under Mandrake right now, and have installed it a few times, both via RPM and by compiling it right from the tarballs. I tried to reinstall the OS + qmail 5 times! The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time! I tried to apply the DNS patch The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time! I tried to change the router configuration: The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time! I installed latest bind: The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time! I installed RedHat: everything is working fine. Has someone got an idea about this? Has someone got the same problem? I did have something similar. Does qmail start for you? Can it resolve the MX for your domain? The problem I had was in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail-pop3d.init file with the programs called in the HOST variable (specifically dnsfq). I changed those calls to specify the domain name on my system and then it started working. Why it didn't work before, I don't know, but after I made that change it did work. If you install from tarballs, you use the qmail script (not any qmail-*.init files which come from the tcpserver-initscripts package, I believe), and I don't even think dnsfq is installed (at any rate, it's not on my system), and things work fine. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net Freezer Burn BBS: telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org . ICQ: 54924721 Webmaster for the Linux Portal Site Freezer Burn: http://www.freezer-burn.org
Re: DO NOT TRY INSTALLING QMAIL ON MANDRAKE
Vincent Danen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, MiGhi wrote: I tried and tried to install QMAIL 1.03 on Mandrake7.0 with NO SUCCESS! Something seems to work wrong on Mandrake, and qmail gives CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE. I'm using Qmail under Mandrake right now, and have installed it a few times, both via RPM and by compiling it right from the tarballs. I tried to reinstall the OS + qmail 5 times! The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time! I tried to apply the DNS patch The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time! I tried to change the router configuration: The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time! I installed latest bind: The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time! I installed RedHat: everything is working fine. Has someone got an idea about this? Has someone got the same problem? I am very interested of your mail. In fact, I installed RedHat + qmail on a service machine. I love Mandrake (I have been using mandrake since Venice release), and I'd prefer to continue using it... but I love Qmail too ;) so: I did have something similar. OK Does qmail start for you? Can it resolve the MX for your domain? sure. Qmail works 100% but can't deliver mail to remote hosts: CNAME LOOKUP UP FAILURE. qmail receive mails at 100% and deliver them to local users (also at virtual domains). It can't deliver to remote hosts The problem I had was in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail-pop3d.init file with the programs called in the HOST variable (specifically dnsfq). I changed those calls to specify the domain name on my system and then it started working. Why it didn't work before, I don't know, but after I made that change it did work. If you install from tarballs, this is my installation you use the qmail script (not any qmail-*.init files which come from the tcpserver-initscripts package, I believe), and I don't even think dnsfq is installed (at any rate, it's not on my system), and things work fine. Yes. I follow Life with qmail for the installation. I repeat: Qmail works 100% but can't deliver mails to remote hosts. I couldn't explain this fact. regards, Miguel
Re: DO NOT TRY INSTALLING QMAIL ON MANDRAKE
On 21-Apr-2000, MiGhi wrote: I repeat: Qmail works 100% but can't deliver mails to remote hosts. As someone else has already mentioned, the problem is possibly your machine can not resolve hostnames properly. I couldn't explain this fact. Check your logs. What domains it failed to deliver to? Can you resolve the domain with nslookup or dig? Again, this is off-topic because it's not qmail's problem. Nor Mandrake's. Ronny
Re: DO NOT TRY INSTALLING QMAIL ON MANDRAKE
I've installed qmail on 3 mandrake 7 boxes without a hitch. This messages is comming through a mandrake box now. Sounds like you have a dns problem. On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, MiGhi wrote: Hi everybody. I tried and tried to install QMAIL 1.03 on Mandrake7.0 with NO SUCCESS! Something seems to work wrong on Mandrake, and qmail gives CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE. I tried to reinstall the OS + qmail 5 times! The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time! I tried to apply the DNS patch The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time! I tried to change the router configuration: The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time! I installed latest bind: The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time! I installed RedHat: everything is working fine. Has someone got an idea about this? Has someone got the same problem? Best regards to all Miguel Beccari
Re: DO NOT TRY INSTALLING QMAIL ON MANDRAKE
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, MiGhi wrote: I have been working for 2 weeks trying to solve this problem. I fixed my DNS problem (applied a patch, and installed latest bind) and I finished to think the problem is Mandrake7, because qmail didn't run. I only wanted to know why. I know this fact is strange, but is real: qmail 1.03 does not work with Mandrake7. CNAME LOOKUP FAILUR != Broken Mandrake7 It means a broken DNS configuration. It can't be patched, it has to be fixed in your config files.
Re: DO NOT TRY INSTALLING QMAIL ON MANDRAKE
Just a thought, what did you set your security level to on the mandrake install? I installed using paranoid (level=5). One of the headaches this caused was that it set the file permissions on /etc/resolv.conf to 400, and kept returning them to 400 when a security audit was run. It caused all sorts of odd DNS errors on non-root processes. FYI, when I tried to install qmail I had this same problem, and just switched back to postfix. However, this was before I fixed that little resolv.conf problem. Maybe it works now? Anyway, check that you can resolve the MX you're sending to after su'ing to the qmail user. - Original Message - I tried and tried to install QMAIL 1.03 on Mandrake7.0 with NO SUCCESS! Something seems to work wrong on Mandrake, and qmail gives CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE.
help! installing qmail
I'm trying to install qmail... it's all compiled... but when I try to send an email from another system to the box... it goes to the box, but it doesn't report an error message, but doesn't get delivered. What did I do wrong? Thanks ___ --Mike "Life moves pretty quickly, if you don't stop and look around you might miss it" - Ferris Buler ___
flushing sendmail queue after installing qmail?
Having recently installed qmail, I've still got some deferred messages in the sendmail queue. Is it OK to run '/usr/lib/sendmail.real -q' to try to send these messages? It won't affect qmail, will it? A. -- I've been wrong before.
Re: flushing sendmail queue after installing qmail?
A Curtin writes: Having recently installed qmail, I've still got some deferred messages in the sendmail queue. Is it OK to run '/usr/lib/sendmail.real -q' to try to send these messages? It won't affect qmail, will it? Yes. No. I mean, Yes and No. Yes to the first, and no to the second. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
Installing Qmail
Hi, I am currentlyrunning sendmail but wish to change to qmail. I have read the instructions but they all say how to upgrade from sendmail to qmail. I want to delete sendmail as if it never existed and install qmail as if I never had a mail program installed. I know I will loose any messages that are in sendmails queue.Is this possible and how? Regards, Steve
Re: Installing Qmail
Waterfront Internet Service wrote: Hi, I am currently running sendmail but wish to change to qmail. I have read the instructions but they all say how to upgrade from sendmail to qmail. I want to delete sendmail as if it never existed and install qmail as if I never had a mail program installed. I know I will loose any messages that are in sendmails queue. Is this possible and how? What Operating System?
Problem installing qmail.
I have installed qmail-1.03. I am able to send and receive mails locally. However, I am not able to send or receive mails from anywhere else. My control files are as follows: defaultdomain: soup.ac.uk helohost: mailhost.soup.ac.uk locals: localhost myhost.soup.ac.uk me: myhost.soup.ac.uk plusdomain: ac.uk rcpthosts: smtproutes: :mailhost.soup.ac.uk --- I have the following environment variables set for user john: setenv MAILDIR .qmail setenv MAILHOST soup.ac.uk setenv MAILUSER j.smith setenv QMAILINJECT f --- I would like any m/c to be able to directly connect to any other host willing to accept connections (including my mailhost). I would also like to receive mail directly from any other host trying to connect to my m/c (including my mailhost, which is unlikely, and so I shall have to use pop mail). I really need some help to get qmail working properly on my m/c. Thanks, Chitta
Re: installing qmail on a free mail server
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, prev. sysadmin in my company left for me a server of free mail that uses sendmail ( Doh! ) The server has ~30k of users soo this is the right place for the qmail. the 1[Q] is: is there any patches I should apply. qmail works fine for me right out of the box. Others have added/changed functionality to suit their needs. Browse www.qmail.org for descriptions of the most popular patches. I simply can`t think of any decent strategy I should follow ... If you've never run qmail before, you should set it up on a test system. Once you've got it behaving there, you can start migrating it to the production system. You can run both qmail and sendmail on the system during the swap. Leave sendmail in /usr/lib/sendmail and run qmail-smtp on a non-standard port. Once that's working, you can configure qmail to handle the "sending" side by pointing /usr/lib/sendmail at /var/qmail/bin/sendmail. Complete the transition by killing the sendmail daemon and switching qmail-smtpd to port 25. Continue to run "sendmail -q" periodically until the sendmail queue is flushed. You should practice this on your test system to make sure things will go smoothly, especially delivering to the right place in the right format and handling .forward files. the server is already listed at ORBS hehe I do what to fix that situation and make it more difficult for spummers to use the server ... any advises? qmail disables relaying by default. You can turn it back on for selected hosts, if necessary. Once qmail-smtpd is handling port 25, you can verify that relaying is disabled and petition the ORBS people to remove your server from their list. the 2[Q] is: has anybody managed to launch imp using qmail? Never heard of it. -Dave
Re: installing qmail on a free mail server
Dave Sill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 1 March 1999 at 12:10:20 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: qmail disables relaying by default. You can turn it back on for selected hosts, if necessary. Once qmail-smtpd is handling port 25, you can verify that relaying is disabled and petition the ORBS people to remove your server from their list. "By default" is sufficiently slippery that I want to sidestep that issue. Since this is an area people seem to have trouble with (at least they ask frequently), let me try some proactive relaying prevention :-). Qmail prevents relaying if and only if the file control/rcpthosts exists (this file should contain the list of domains that your server should accept email for delivery to). If all locally-originated email is sent via qmail-inject (including via the qmail sendmail wrapper), that's all you need to do. However, if some mail user agents submit their mail via SMTP, and always if you have POP users, you need to turn relaying on selectively for the IP addresses that those users come from. This process is described in FAQ 5.4. -- David Dyer-Bennet [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ddb.com/~ddb (photos, sf) Minicon: http://www.mnstf.org/minicon http://ouroboros.demesne.com/ The Ouroboros Bookworms Join the 20th century before it's too late!
installing qmail on a free mail server
Hi, prev. sysadmin in my company left for me a server of free mail that uses sendmail ( Doh! ) The server has ~30k of users soo this is the right place for the qmail. the 1[Q] is: is there any patches I should apply. I simply can`t think of any decent strategy I should follow ... the server is already listed at ORBS hehe I do what to fix that situation and make it more difficult for spummers to use the server ... any advises? the 2[Q] is: has anybody managed to launch imp using qmail? thanx Pashah -- http://www.spb.sitek.net/~pashah/public-key-0x97739141.pgp
